Review of Social Economy articles from June 2004

Review of Social Economy archives from June 2004

Brothers and breadwinners: legislating living wages in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
June 1, 2004... Abstract Attention to the implicit and explicit wage theories articulated by economic actors and embedded in public policy reveals the underlying social norms and values in specific historical and industrial contexts. The Fair Labor Standards...

Autonomy-respecting assistance: toward an alternative theory of development assistance.
June 1, 2004... Abstract The purpose of this paper is outline an alternative theory of development assistance by analyzing the old strategies for technical cooperation, capacity-building and, in broader terms, development assistance in a way that will point to...

The incoherent emperor: a heterodox critique of neoclassical microeconomic theory.
June 1, 2004... Abstract It is somewhat common for heterodox economists to come to the defense of neoclassical microeconomic theory. This is due to many reasons, but perhaps the commonest one is ignorance. It seems that most heterodox economists are not aware...

Economic models of sin and remorse: some simple analytics.
June 1, 2004... Abstract Economists have recently shown a renewed interest in studying immoral behavior and the feelings of guilt or remorse that such acts engender. Yet the research in this nascent literature has generally lacked mathematical rigor and...

Was shock therapy consistent with democracy? (1).
June 1, 2004... Abstract The transition process in Russia and Eastern Europe was dominated in the literature and in policy making by the shock therapy process. However, shock therapy was short-lived. Governments that implemented shock therapy were not able to...

Religiosity, economics and life satisfaction.
June 1, 2004... Abstract This paper uses a large individual data set from the Euro Barometer Survey (ICPSR 1993) to estimate the influence of religious phenomena on self-perceived satisfaction of an individual, controlling for macroeconomic conditions, effects...

Preference Pollution, reasons, and other murky motivations: on some hidden costs of the market.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... David George's recent book, Preference Pollution, makes the provocative claim that we are not assessing the full costs of using the market. The argument is grounded in over two decades of thinking by the author about multiple preferences. The...